TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Shanghai's night life, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party in 1949 was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the day-to-day travails of the common prostitute. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social and business life, mores, and sexuality. Henriot portrays a sector that was sensitive to economic and social conditions, and thus accurately reflected Shanghai's changing social structure, societal attitudes, and commercial development. This is the most comprehensive treatment available of a social phenomenon that has been much discussed in studies of Chinese culture, but largely neglected as a subject of serious historical concern. At the crossroads of social and intellectual history, this study goes behind the curtain of exoticism and takes a realistic look at a vibrant sector of Shanghai's economic and cultural life."--Jacket.
AB  - "Shanghai's night life, from the mid-nineteenth century until the victory of the Communist Party in 1949 was dominated by the world of prostitution. Henriot portrays the Chinese sex trade, from the sophisticated life of the courtesan to the day-to-day travails of the common prostitute. He examines the extent to which these worlds were integral to Chinese social and business life, mores, and sexuality. Henriot portrays a sector that was sensitive to economic and social conditions, and thus accurately reflected Shanghai's changing social structure, societal attitudes, and commercial development. This is the most comprehensive treatment available of a social phenomenon that has been much discussed in studies of Chinese culture, but largely neglected as a subject of serious historical concern. At the crossroads of social and intellectual history, this study goes behind the curtain of exoticism and takes a realistic look at a vibrant sector of Shanghai's economic and cultural life."--Jacket.
T1  - Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai :a social history 1849-1949 /
DA  - 2001.
CY  - Cambridge, UK ;
CY  - New York :
AU  - Henriot, Christian.
CN  - HQ250.S52
CN  - HQ250.S52
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge, UK ;
PP  - New York :
LA  - eng
LA  - Translation of: Belles de Shanghai.
PY  - 2001.
ID  - 1374260
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Prostitutes
KW  - 15.75 history of Asia.
KW  - Prostitutes.
KW  - Prostitution.
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Sexualverhalten
KW  - Prostitutie.
KW  - Seksuele betrekkingen.
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Prostitutes
SN  - 0521571650
SN  - 9780521571654
TI  - Prostitution and sexuality in Shanghai :a social history 1849-1949 /
ER  -